“I didn't know with certainty what to say about the large world, and didn't care to risk speculating. And I still don't.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The most important things of your life can change so suddenly, so unrecoverably, that you can forget even the most important of… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“A sad fact, of course, about adult life is that you see the very things you'll never adapt to coming toward you… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. It's what you're willing to give up.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“...good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me -- and, with these things to make a life.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Though possibly it–the answer–is simple: it is just low-life, some coldness in us all, some helplessness that causes us to misunderstand life… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible — time-freed,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“And now, while he didn't particularly think any of these stories was a bit truer, he did realize that he didn't really… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“. . . no matter the evidence of your life, or who you believe you are, or what you're willing to take… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
